America

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  3 April 2017
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Lenín Moreno wins election, Oppostition contests outcome Quito (Agenzia Fides) – Lenín Moreno, the candidate backed by Rafael Correa (Ecuador‘s president), was declared the winner in elections on Sunday 2 April, amid charges of fraud raised by the Opposition. With almost ...
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  3 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Concern for social tension: “this creates a dictatorship” warns Cardinal Urosa Savino Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – " The National Assembly is still blocked. I am deeply concerned about the state of emergency in our country regarding poor economic growth which has persisted for the past twelve months. ...
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  3 April 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Prayers and aid for victims of the Mocoa disaster, at least 250 dead Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – During the night of Saturday 1 April a huge mud slide swamped the Colombian town of Mocoa. The Mocoa and SanBoyaco rivers burst their banks sweeping away homes, cars and two bridges. At leas ...
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  31 March 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Need to improve the tragic situation through dialogue": Fr. Sosa on the crisis that the country lives Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Venezuelan Jesuit priest Arturo Sosa, first Latin American to be elected superior general of the Society of Jesus (SJ), visited his confreres in Peru this week, where he was interviewed by "El C ...
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  31 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest kidnapped in Tamaulipas has been released Tamaulipas (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Oscar Lopez Navarro, 40, was released on Thursday, March 30", said the Bishop of the Diocese of Tampico in Tamaulipas, His Exc. Mgr. José Luis Dibildox Martinez. He informed the loca ...
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  30 March 2017
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The law, supported by the Church, which bans metal mining has been approved San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Congress of El Salvador yesterday, 29 March, approved a law banning metal mining in the country. The bill was passed by 69 votes in favour out of 84 in total and had broad support from ...
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  30 March 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - More than 2 million children cannot go to school due to flood damage Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The recent intense rains have caused heavy flooding in Peru, causing serious material damage in addition to the death of 90 people (see Fides 16/03/2017). As with all natural disasters, children ar ...
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  30 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest kidnapped, a high ransom demand Tamaulipas (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Tampico, His Exc. Mgr. José Luis Martinez Dibildox, reported yesterday, March 29, the kidnapping of 40-year-old Fr. Oscar Lopez Navarro. According to the Bishop's statements ...
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  29 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - More riots and violence in prisons, a reform is urgently needed Ciudad Victoria (Agenzia Fides) - "What happens in Cadereyta prison is just the tip of the 'iceberg', reports a newspaper in Nuevo Leon, referring to the two-day uprising in a Mexican prison, which caused two deaths and ...
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  29 March 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - "Parliamentary coup": the Bishops ask for legality and respect for democracy Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "The decisions taken, with serious doubts regarding their legality and legitimacy, are a sign of the absolute lack of consideration and respect for the democratic institution that with so much ...
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  28 March 2017
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Corruption and fanaticism": Mgr. Baez invites to give light and soul to society Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a lot of corruption. There are many lies, there is selfishness and a lot of greed for money and power, and this creates injustice and increases the number of poor people", said His Exc ...
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  28 March 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Children under 15 years of age guilty of 2,936 crimes Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In Caracas, the most violent city in the world, children at already eight years of age start killing. According to a research of Cecodap (non-governmental organization that defends human rights ...
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  28 March 2017
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Another priest killed because of crime Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Father Felipe Carrillo Altamirano was killed on Sunday, March 26 in the village of El Nayar, Prelature of Jesús María del Nayar, Nayarit state, apparently victim of an assault for theft. T ...
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  27 March 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - A survey on corruption on Twitter, to allow the community to reflect Bani (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Diocese of Bani, Dominican Republic, His Exc. Mgr. Victor Emilio Masalles Pere launched a survey in which he asked: "Do you agree with Mgr. Víctor Masalles that the fight against ...
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  24 March 2017
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - "Two countries but one Church, committed to migrants": meeting of border dioceses Barahona (Agenzia Fides) - In a statement released yesterday, the group of representatives of the border dioceses of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, who met on March 21 to analyze common problems (see Fides 23/03/2017) ...